For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.
bsky.app/profile/dond...
Nixon and the Rwgan scandals seem to represent a large formative part of the conservative psyche, which seems like a source of revision and resentment.
So if the President does it, it's not illegal?
I do wonder if the fall of Nixon and the Reagan scandals had such a profound effect on conservatives of a it should not have happened/cannot happen feeling was a major part of jurisprudence policy, like the unitary executive.
